Exercises

Integrating sources (MLA style)

In each pair, choose the one that better integrates the source material into an MLA-style research project. Click here to see this exercise with APA-style citations.For help with this topic, see EasyWriter, Chapters 39 and 41.

Example

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Lawler argues that technology “our use of it clearly makes us both better and worse” (125).

Lawler argues, “Technology is a problem because we cannot do without it and our use of it clearly makes us both better and worse” (125).

Chapter 3 - Integrating sources (MLA style): In each pair, choose the one that better integrates the source material into an MLA-style research project. Click here to see this exercise with APA-style citations.For help with this topic, see EasyWriter, Chapters 39 and 41.

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According to Bowman, the media are constantly attacking innocent politicians (56).

As Bowman writes, politicians “are victims of our new media culture and its need to meet the demand for scandal with repeated and often far-fetched attempts to find something scandalous about them” (58).

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One California study has shown that yards landscaped for drought resistance have “sharply contrasting” irrigation needs from traditional lawns and that “startling differences” can be seen in the maintenance required and in the quantities of chemicals and resources consumed by each landscaping plan (McErlane 40).

One California study “not only shows sharply contrasting water requirements between traditional and water-conserving landscaping, but also proves startling differences in amounts of labor, fertilizer, herbicides, and fuel used for lawn mowing and clipping removal between these two types of landscapes” (McErlane 40).

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While Pew shows that most Americans feel that immigrants need to try harder to learn English and fit in, Nunberg has argued that today’s immigrants are working hard to assimilate.

A recent public opinion poll found that a majority of Americans believe immigrants are not learning English in “a reasonable amount of time,” and almost half of Americans feel that immigrants today are not as willing as immigrants of the early 1900s to “adapt to the American way of life” (Pew). But according to Nunberg, it actually “takes recent immigrants a generation or so less to learn English than it took the Germans, Poles, or Italians of the early twentieth century.”

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According to Yeazell, eighteenth-century books instructing women on how to behave were extremely common. Such works explained that a "modest woman can be recognized by her downcast eyes, her head turned aside, and above all by the blush that suffuses her cheek" (5).

As Yeazell reports, in the eighteenth century, "The modest woman [could] be recognized by her downcast eyes, her head turned aside, and above all by the blush that [suffused] her cheek" (5).